Kazakhstan expands China oil pipeline link The Guardian * Kazakhstan expands key pipeline to China * China gets access to Caspian Sea oil fields By Olzhas Auyezov ALMATY, July 1 (Reuters) - China secured access to vast oil deposits in western Kazakhstan on Wednesday after the energy-rich Central Asian nation said it had completed the expansion of a major...
Gazprom Puts a Positive Spin on First-Half Results The New York Times | MOSCOW - Gazprom has endured a dismal first half of the year, but the long-term outlook for the company remains bright, Aleksei B. Miller, the company's chief executive, told a meeting of shareholders Friday. Skip to next paragraph Related Times Topics: Gazprom | Mr. Miller, one of the most influe...
Iran plans huge gas investment Gulf News | Tehran: Iran plans to invest around $70 billion (Dh257 billion) in two major offshore natural gas fields in the 2010-15 period, a senior official said in comments broadcast on Friday. | Seifollah Jashnsaz, managing director of the state National Ir...
Analysis: Russia plays checkbook diplomacy The Press Democrat | Faced with its own economic crisis, the Kremlin could have downplayed its drive to reclaim its former status as a "great power" and fight fires at home. | Instead, armed with cash hoarded during years of high oil prices, Russia has gone on a cash o...
Analysis: Russia plays checkbook diplomacy Seattle Times MOSCOW - | Russia is using its energy wealth to shore up influence abroad, pouring billions of dollars in loans and grants into former Soviet states and long-standing allies - even as it faces its own severe economic downturn. | Faced with its own ec...
Analysis: Russia plays checkbook diplomacy The News & Observer | MOSCOW -- Russia is using its energy wealth to shore up influence abroad, pouring billions of dollars in loans and grants into former Soviet states and long-standing allies - even as it faces its own severe economic downturn. | Faced with its own e...
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Administration Plans to Move Top Iran Expert to White House The New York Times | WASHINGTON - With the White House assuming a more central role in dealing with Iran, the Obama administration plans to move its senior Iran policy maker, Dennis B. Ross, to the N...
Worst of global crisis not yet over - IMF chief The Guardian * IMF says need to be cautious about economic recovery * Strauss-Kahn says worst of crisis not over yet (Adds details, quotes, background) By Sabina Zawadzki ASTANA, June 15 (Reute...
Analysis: Russia plays checkbook diplomacy Philadelphia Daily News | CATRINA STEWART | The Associated Press | MOSCOW - Russia is using its energy wealth to shore up influence abroad, pouring billions of dollars in loans and grants into former Soviet states and long-standing allies , even as it faces its own severe e...
Analysis: Russia plays checkbook diplomacy Denver Post | MOSCOW—Russia is using its energy wealth to shore up influence abroad, pouring billions of dollars in loans and grants into former Soviet states and long-standing allies—even as it faces its own severe economic downturn. | Faced with it...
Analysis: Russia plays checkbook diplomacy The News Tribune | Russia is using its energy wealth to shore up influence abroad, pouring billions of dollars in loans and grants into former Soviet states and long-standing allies - even as it faces its own severe economic downturn. | Faced with its own economic cr...
Biologists hope to give Columbia River predator birds other nesting options The News Tribune | A Caspian tern catching five juvenile salmon or steelhead for itself and a chick each day can take 150 fish a month from the Columbia River. | Make that 300 nesting pairs of birds at Crescent Island, each with a couple of chicks, multiply times five months of summer and fall for salmon and steelhead migration, and that equals 500,000 fish going d...
US Marines push deeper into southern Afghan towns Philadelphia Daily News | JASON STRAZIUSO and FISNIK ABRASHI | The Associated Press | NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001. | One...
